Yet another Jet Li-driven, Chinese historical drama is full of sweeping montages, dramatic battle scenes and rhetorical blood oaths, but...its dramatic gravitas is lost among a convoluted plot and a weak love triangle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2019

I think it is worth seeing but not one that must be seen.

| Jan 13, 2018

This film has real scope, showing fantastic battle sequences that rival Hollywood films like Braveheart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 31, 2012

... a muscular character piece set against a massive war and the power relationships behind the battles (as well as more severed limbs than I've seen in a single film).

| Jul 1, 2010

Doesn't break ground; in fact, it carries on a tradition. But it does so with both flair and passion.

| Original Score: B | Jul 1, 2010

Warlords is so intent on expertly choreographed, but repetitive, enormo-battles that there isn't much time to develop characters (and the less said about a tacked-on romance, the better).

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 30, 2010

A tale of noble brotherhood compromised by self-interest and a messy love triangle, The Warlords, ultimately, tries to speak to the futility of war - but it does so by staging one gargantuan dustup after another.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 15, 2010

Too much eeyaahhh and probably not enough kiss-kiss meow-meow.

| Apr 13, 2010

Plays out with a tiresome grimy look, and a strange lack of emotional resonance.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 9, 2010

It isn't clear if "Warlords" is supposed to be a comedy or an adventure thriller but it will only appeal to those who appreciate the screaming cast of thousands.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 9, 2010

Veteran action choreographer Ching Siu-Tung deserves a good share of the credit, since the gritty, exciting battle scenes are the film's heart.

| Apr 9, 2010

In The Warlords, war is heaven. In fact, it makes everything else seem tedious by comparison.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 9, 2010

The Warlords gets a release in the United States nearly 2 1/2 years after its Hong Kong premiere, and it's a wonder it took so long.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 8, 2010

The resulting spectacle directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan, a prolific Hong Kong filmmaker whose previous credits include the English title "Tom, Dick and Hairy," is a historically factual war movie about the Taiping Rebellion, a love story and a luscious depi

| Original Score: A- | Apr 8, 2010

It's all lavish, if disposable. But in a nifty change of pace, the warriors in The Warlords are interesting.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2010

The action scenes are good (Chan began his career as an assistant director to John Woo), but they fall between many scenes of Li shedding rivers of not-so-manly, and very uncharacteristic, tears.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2010

Big and raw, it also feels slightly rambling, perhaps trying to tell too much in one go

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 4, 2010

It is the rising friction between the blood brothers that holds the story together. The arguments about loyalty and larger missions that tear at their alliance feel both age old and completely current.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2010

The ambiguous nature of honour, loyalty, good and evil is nicely reflected in the story that weaves political intrigue, obsessive ambition and human failings into a film thatâ(TM)s never boring for a minute.

| Apr 2, 2010

Fans of action master Jet Li won't be disappointed, even if the opportunities for virtuoso maneuvers by him are few.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2010